Here’s something to pass the time…
Monday Drive-By Thread
by lobo91 ( 260 Comments › )Filed under Open thread, Uncategorized at July 31st, 2023 - 12:07 pm
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
Thanks lobo, I have a thing or 2 to share
US Electrical Grid Dependent on China–Made Transformers
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/us-electrical-grid-dependent-on-china-made-transformers-5384923
In this case, what the Chinese did was genius. They realized that these transformers need a certain type of steel to be manufactured, grain-oriented electrical steel. What do the Chinese do? They dumped into the market massive amounts of grain-oriented steel. They cornered the market for the precursors that are needed to create the transformers.
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We imported this massive 500,000-pound electric transformer from China. They decided to send it to one of our national labs when it came into the country. They found hardware in it that had the ability for somebody in China to switch it off.
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The grid is also vulnerable to threats from Mother Nature. It’s 100 percent certain that at some point the grid will go down because of solar weather. That’s a warning I’ve personally issued at least twice to Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm
The article talks about a group Grid Down Power Up
https://griddownpowerup.com/
They’ve got a video coming out to youtube and amazon in Sept, you can sign up to be notified
thx lobo….got back from the beach and they needed me a day early at work 4 hours away from home…unpack, repack, leave
this is the first time i’ve had the laptop on in a week!
This is a 6 minute video of Sen. Kennedy – out national treasure from Louisiana grilling a judicial nominee on all the times she was reversed. ONE of the cases was a shocker. Apparently the Pres. of Penn State was convicted of covering up child sex abuse crimes. WHAT?? Anyhoo, this whacko judge let him go on a habeus corpus thing and got nailed for it by the 3rd circuit for failing to apply the relevant case law. sheesh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ilrb4RIjk4
This lovely old hotel has a bar w restaurant. Not enough hotels do that. So, instead of going to the brewery down the road, hotel…
…then brewery!
Audubon photo awards!
https://www.audubon.org/news/2023-audubon-photography-awards-top-100?
I posted an article about this downstairs, but this one is straight from NASA. With cool video!
Tonga Eruption Blasted Unprecedented Amount of Water Into Stratosphere
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere
he huge amount of water vapor hurled into the atmosphere, as detected by NASA’s Microwave Limb Sounder, could end up temporarily warming Earth’s surface.
When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, it sent a tsunami racing around the world and set off a sonic boom that circled the globe twice. The underwater eruption in the South Pacific Ocean also blasted an enormous plume of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. The sheer amount of water vapor could be enough to temporarily affect Earth’s global average temperature.
“We’ve never seen anything like it,” said Luis Millán, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. He led a new study examining the amount of water vapor that the Tonga volcano injected into the stratosphere, the layer of the atmosphere between about 8 and 33 miles (12 and 53 kilometers) above Earth’s surface.
In the study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, Millán and his colleagues estimate that the Tonga eruption sent around 146 teragrams (1 teragram equals a trillion grams) of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – equal to 10% of the water already present in that atmospheric layer. That’s nearly four times the amount of water vapor that scientists estimate the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines lofted into the stratosphere.
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This extra water vapor could influence atmospheric chemistry, boosting certain chemical reactions that could temporarily worsen depletion of the ozone layer. It could also influence surface temperatures. Massive volcanic eruptions like Krakatoa and Mount Pinatubo typically cool Earth’s surface by ejecting gases, dust, and ash that reflect sunlight back into space. In contrast, the Tonga volcano didn’t inject large amounts of aerosols into the stratosphere, and the huge amounts of water vapor from the eruption may have a small, temporary warming effect, since water vapor traps heat. The effect would dissipate when the extra water vapor cycles out of the stratosphere and would not be enough to noticeably exacerbate climate change effects.
I just signed up for ChatGPT. It’s gonna teach me math stuff. so I don’t stay ignorant and all that stuff.
@ eaglesoars:
After algebra, do stats 101
After calculus, do multi variate stats
NZ loin of lamb….ok, hotel bar…
LET’S GO!!!
WHOA! ChatGPT cannot play wordle!
eaglesoars wrote:
It keeps giving me solutions using letters that are in the DISALLOWED list. Tell it it used a bad letter, e.g. A and it comes back with a word that uses a second letter on the DISALLOWED list, e.g. D.
The next try it uses A again. It doesn’t learn.
@ eaglesoars:
ChatGPT’s response when I told it to contact its developers to fix it
I apologize for the repeated mistakes and any frustration caused. As an AI language model, I don’t have the ability to learn from interactions
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m ok with algebra, but only because I taught myself when I was 26 using pic up sticks. I kid you not. Once I was comfortable, I signed up for a remedial algebra course at night at PSU and got kicked out because I was no longer remedial.
Well, come to think of it, that was 45 years ago so I should probably brush up.
I told it to give me a beginner’s algebra problem to solve. I think its battery died.
eaglesoars wrote:
geometry. I need geometry
eaglesoars wrote:
I needed acid and then shrooms to get past graduate calculus and multi variate.
@ eaglesoars:
If taught right, geometry is so easy
@ eaglesoars:
Astronomy has been awful from the deck.
Now I know why
coldwarrior wrote:
I simply did NOT get it. At first. Then I got my sorry ass kicked out of Mt. Lebanon and ended up in a private school. My geometry teacher was one Lois Anderson, may God bless her and keep her. She told everybody to call her ‘Butch’ because that’s what her husband called her. Well, Butch instinctively figured out my problem and how to solve it. At the time, I didn’t know if I wanted to go into anthropology or archeology. During summer breaks, she and her husband – who actually was an archeaologist – would head down to Mexico and work on digs. She asked me if I’d like to learn how to set up a dig!
And she taught me geometry without my realizing it. Until I did. After that I went from a ‘lucky if I pulled a D’ to a straight A.
It’s not that I’m stupid, but I definitely don’t learn like other people.
But I need a refresher.
coldwarrior wrote:
canada wildfires?
eaglesoars wrote:
oh wait! WATER VAPOR from the volcano!
coldwarrior wrote:
Agreed. I loved geometry. Hated Algebra. I’ve heard that’s pretty common. But, the only math I totally blew out of the water was college general math, the logic section.
I haven’t read it but this will kill the frozen dinner sections in the grocery stores
For the Love of God, Stop Microwaving Plastic
A study of baby-food containers shows that microwaving plastic releases millions upon millions of polymer bits.
https://www.wired.com/story/for-the-love-of-god-stop-microwaving-plastic/
So did Archer’s testimony say that Joe’s conversations were about mundane things?
@ right_wing2:
no idea. It was behind closed doors. THE DEMS are saying that. “Oh, Joe just talked about the weather”.
Yeah. Gimme the money or you will wish a hurricane had hit you.
Now a Disease from Biblical Times Is Likely Coming Over Our Unsecured Border
https://pjmedia.com/columns/paula-bolyard/2023/07/31/now-a-disease-from-biblical-times-is-likely-coming-over-our-unsecured-border-n1714913
Leprosy! Oh goody!
eaglesoars wrote:
NOT really a problem these days. First it is extremely hard to spread. I was terrified of catching Leprosy from the locals I used to fly from the jungle to the coast so that they could be treated. Villages would have just a couple of Leper houses (families) in a village of 20 huts. It just didn’t spread as long as you didn’t live in VERY close proximity for long periods. The Ultimate nurse Ever told me in NO UNCERTAIN terms to put the TB cases down the back, then a row of Yaws because they stunk and looked like green erupting mini-volcanos on their faces and then PUT THE LEPERS up the front with you mate! Now get on with it pronto bud!
Everyone was terrified of her. She was 5’3″ would blow away in a strong breeze, and looked after 83,000 patients, walked the school kids back home for the long holidays a week’s walk, from (patrol officers hut to Patrol officers hut) all on her own in the jungle but with 60 kids in tow between 7 and 13 who boarded on the coast because there was not enough food where they lived! She was some gal! Erin Halloran from Invercargill at the bottom of NZ.
Used to ferry her about by air to give paediatric services to the whole of the WEST SEPIK REGION!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Yowser!
Ok back to whole home generator tales. A contractor was just here to give me an estimate and told me the following: his company is installing these things for a couple of guys who work for the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority, a public power company, for all you furriners) and they are “gettin’ nervous”.
yeppers
right_wing2 wrote:
Flopping Aces has the story
https://www.floppingaces.net/2023/08/01/archer-confirms-what-we-knew-about-joe-the-brand-but-it-was-dan-goldman-who-provided-the-comedy-yesterday/
Yesterday Devon Archer confirmed all suspicions about the Bidens. Hunter did put Joe on the phone two dozen times with foreign entities. Joe Biden was “the brand.” Joe Biden the “Brand” saved the corrupt Burisma. “Joe the Brand” prostituted his position as VP for cash. But it was Dan Goldman who provided the comedy entertainment for the day. Dan Goldman is the classic rich liberal white boy born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Miranda Devine:
Let me introduce you to Dan Goldman, recently hatched representative of New York’s 10th Congressional District, smarmy heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, Democrats’ staff attorney during the first impeachment of Donald Trump, Russiagate hoaxer, liberal darling of MSNBC, and, since he was sworn in four months ago, stock market trader with an uncanny Midas touch.
Goldman, 47, owes his unlikely primary win last year to the millions he spent on his self-funded campaign, and the generous endorsement of the New York Times, whose owners, the Sulzbergers, have enjoyed generations of cozy ties to the Goldman family.
It is hard to find a finer example of elite privilege than this blue-eyed son of Sidwell Friends, Stanford and Yale.
His middle name is Sachs. Daniel Sachs Goldman. Sounds familiar.
We Are Right On The Cusp Of Going Completely Cashless As Our Global Society Shifts Into Complete Dependence On Virtual Currency And Transactions
https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/coming-cashless-society-mark-of-the-beast-crypto-bitcoin-worldcoin-x-elon-musk/
The picture at the top of this article is one I took myself as we went shopping this weekend at the Outlets Mall on Rt 16 in Saint Augustine. It leapt out as me as we passed by, and I snapped it right away. There are many such stores here in Florida with signs on their windows proclaiming their now-cashless corporate structure. Did you know that many fast food places are testing business models that are 100% takeout and 100% cashless? Chick-fil-a is doing that right now, and they’re not the only ones.
‘Caught-Red-Handed’: Scientists Call for Full Retraction of Nature’s Proximal Origin Paper, as Fraud Accusations Mount
https://www.aier.org/article/caught-red-handed-scientists-call-for-full-retraction-of-natures-proximal-origin-paper-as-fraud-accusations-mount/
(that’s American Institute for Economic Research)
Agrowing number of people, including prominent scientists, are calling for a full retraction of a high-profile study published in the journal Nature in March 2020 that explored the origins of SARS-CoV-2.
The paper, whose authors included immunology and microbiology professor Kristian G. Andersen, declared that evidence clearly showed that SARS-CoV-2 did not originate from a laboratory.
“Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus,” the authors wrote in February.
Yet a trove of recently published documents reveal that Andersen and his co-authors believed that the lab leak scenario was not just possible, but likely.
“[The] main thing still in my mind is that the lab escape version of this is so friggin’ likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario,” Andersen said to his colleagues, according to a report from Public, which published a series of Slack messages between the authors.
hemp rope, lamp posts
This is fine.
Auto carrier ship burning off Holland now reported to have had nearly 500, not 25 electric vehicles on board
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/auto_carrier_ship_burning_off_holland_now_reported_to_have_had_nearly_500_not_25_electric_vehicles_on_board.html
how long has that thing been burning?
This is hilarious. A great read. Also like reading the old Buckley columns, I had to look up words.
Another harridan demands special treatment
https://www.wnd.com/2023/07/another-harridan-demands-special-treatment/
There are none more stenotopic when it comes to the pursuit of rejecting modernity from cradle to grave than hate-filled Negro women who behaviorally redefine “harridan.” That’s not ipse dixit. It’s a fact verifiable on every quantifiable level.
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This lacquered-face woman has lodged complaint against society arguing that: “Black people need ‘safe spaces to go camping and just experience the outdoors’ due to past racial discrimination.”
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When did she and her kind truthfully become so enamored with hiking, camping and pitching tents? What are the numbers of melanin-dominant people who frequent the camping stores and hunting stores? Perhaps it has escaped Adams’ neo-Leninist polluted mind that not everyone is interested in hunting, hiking and camping. What gives her the right to dictate who can go in the woods? Talk about irony: Her kind go to Africa and never go into the jungle. They lounge around hotel pools and shopping districts. And, suddenly, we’re supposed to believe they’re interested in establishing a segregated Walden Pond?
go read it
So I found some reddit subthreads on ChatGPT and some interesting stuff there.
However, there’s another pressing problem with ChatGPT that some users suspect could be the cause of the recent drop in performance – an issue that the AI industry seems largely unprepared to tackle.
If you’re not familiar with the term ‘AI cannibalism’, let me break it down in brief: large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Google Bard scrape the public internet for data to be used when generating responses. In recent months, a veritable boom in AI-generated content online – including an unwanted torrent of AI-authored novels on Kindle Unlimited – means that LLMs are increasingly likely to scoop up materials that were already produced by an AI when hunting through the web for information.
ChatGPT use declines as users complain about ‘dumber’ answers, and the reason might be AI’s biggest threat for the future
https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-use-declines-as-users-complain-about-dumber-answers-and-the-reason-might-be-ais-biggest-threat-for-the-future
cool stuff
See stunning likeness of Zlatý kůň, the oldest modern human to be genetically sequenced
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/see-stunning-likeness-of-zlaty-kun-the-oldest-modern-human-to-be-genetically-sequenced
I’m tellin’ ya, this guy is WAY too smooth….
https://frontline.news/post/Rising-republican-star-downplays-globalist-ties
Rising Republican star downplays globalist ties
What you need to know about the incandescent light bulb ban
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/01/business/incandescent-light-bulb-ban/index.html
White South African farmer’s throat slit on his property by 4 teens the day after 90,000 black people gathered in a stadium to chant about killing white farmers
https://notthebee.com/article/white-south-african-farmers-throat-slit-by-4-black-teens-days-after-90000-people-gathered-in-a-stadium-to-chant-about-killing-white-farmers
I don’t know if she’s just dumb as a sack of hammers or malicious. I guess they’re not mutually exclusive
We previously discussed how Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson included a false claim to support her dissent in the Court’s recent opinion barring racial discrimination in college admissions. Now, the justice is accused of a second false claim derived from the same source: the amicus brief of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Notably, however, the media is still citing the first error as proof that race-blind admissions will kill Black citizens.
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/07/31/justice-jackson-accused-of-second-glaring-false-claim-in-affirmative-action-dissent/
And from our TOP MEN file we have…
When The New York Times reported in April that a contractor had purchased and deployed a spying tool made by NSO, the contentious Israeli hacking firm, for use by the U.S. government, White House officials said they were unaware of the contract and put the FBI in charge of figuring out who might have been using the technology.
After an investigation, the FBI uncovered at least part of the answer: It was the FBI.
https://news.yahoo.com/paid-mysterious-spy-tool-fbi-173620207.html
coldwarrior wrote:
We had a great geometry teacher in H.S. Funny guy, was also the head of the magician’s guild in Cincinnati. Our incentive for racing through the lessons and assignments was an impromptu sleight of hand show. The rest of the math department was top notch, too. I still use the algebra, geometry and trig they taught us.
Then I made the mistake of placing out of college-level trig and was dumped face first into calculus. Barely passed Calc II – I was happy to take the D and run away.
eaglesoars wrote:
“Next on the banned list: compact fluorescent light bulbs.”
@ eaglesoars:
Look, it’s a black guy camping. In a tent. With a dog:
I thought that was illegal or something?
eaglesoars wrote:
“The genetic data from Zlatý kůň I have worked on cannot tell us much about her facial characteristics,” so here’s what she looked like.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I think we should ban A/C in Congressional offices.
Guidance please. From one of the ChatGTP reddit subthreads, I’m invited to join the ‘Discord server’
Looked that up and “Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform. Users have the ability to communicate with voice calls, video calls, text messaging, media and files in private chats or as part of communities called “servers”.”
worth it? too intrusive? bleh?
Saw a meme somewhere claiming that antifa has been installing surveillance cameras camouflaged as hornet nests and for people to knock them down.
eaglesoars wrote:
The climate change crap drives everything and has nothing to do with science OR global temperatues. I wish I knew how to destroy the hoax mongers but we’re decades late.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I saw something yesterday, forget where. They want to raise the mileage standard for combustion engine cars to 58 mpg. Which of course is impossible. But that’s the point
Back to ChatGTP stuff. Posted the response I got from it – I can’t learn from repeated interactions – and got this explanation.
It could learn but it’s not allowed to do so, because they don’t want individual users mucking up the algorithm for everyone else. They had this problem before with neo-Nazi’s patiently teaching the engine to be racist, reddit trolls teaching the algorithm to say whatever stupid things they found amusing, and so forth.
eaglesoars wrote:
Because of human-caused global climate change which is also impossible.
We live in interesting times. Short version: We’re fucked
Filmmaker Jeremy Corbell recently appeared on NBC, suggesting that crucial information is set to be released “extremely soon” through channels “beyond the government.” Following this revelation, News Nation announced that their next installment of the ‘We Are Not Alone’ series will be broadcasted from an unusual but interesting location – the Vatican
https://twitter.com/Docneuroeo/status/1686427487495245824
USAF walks back tanker forecast: ‘We don’t know what our strategy is’
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2023/08/usaf-walks-back-tanker-prediction-we-dont-know-what-our-strategy/389006/
eaglesoars wrote:
To go all clinical on you Eagles, this particular melanin dominant, neo-Marxist’s brain is so totally screwed that she is automatically self certified and is obviously gagging to lock herself away from those predatory Albinos in some imaginary vert jungle utopia. Central Africa would be a great place to find just that location. Just ensure that her anti-malarial are all up to date and advise her to leave her Western technology behind as well. None of that forced appropriation of nasty Western electricity ‘stuff’ for her, to get in her way of finding her ‘roots’.
I’ll give odds that she will attempt to sneak back to modernity get well away from those African ‘safe spaces’
Those anopheles mosquitos are equal opportunity, politics blind, ‘biters’ I believe that she will find.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Obviously the erstwhile elan of the USAF have discovered the limits of their ‘…..known, Unknowns and are teetering on the brink of their unknown, unknowables and it’s time to return to the sandpit of their brain, to ponder their gender identities yet again …. and around and around they fly!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Ohhhh groan not that!
Please NOT that again.
The heretic sodomites who have occupied the Vatican city will have you discussing how many ‘small greys’ . ‘tall nordic types’ and reptilian aliens can dance on the head if a pin.
Don’t encourage ’em!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
I have Discord. At it’s base it’s just another messaging program. The benefit is for people that need additional services such as streaming, video conferencing, things like that. I really don’t use it much. Keep up with communications from games I’m interested in, occasional file transfer to a friend. Occasionally I have to use it to communicate with my children since they live there more than reality.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Thanks, for me right now it sounds like a ‘bleh’
Stick a fork in him
Today’s indictment serves as an important reminder: anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be President of the United States.
https://twitter.com/Mike_Pence/status/1686529371685658625
eaglesoars wrote:
the ratios are a sight to behold!
eaglesoars wrote:
lol
Someone came up with the same thing I posted elsewhere:
“The fly was right.”
I am utterly bewildered by what has happened to the DeSantis campaign. I thought he was a viable candidate opposing Trump. I don’t get it. And I absolutely don’t get this asshole. DeSantis campaign mgr for Wisconsin
Donald Trump betrayed his oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution. Mike Pence was loyal to his country, which is a lot more important than loyalty to the orange man.
https://twitter.com/BenjaminRothove/status/1686558770279686144
I mean….WTAF? Why would you even GO there?
@ eaglesoars:
Although I have no real interest in who is president I said months ago on here that DeSantis should not run for president this time.
From what I saw at that time he was doing an awesome job as governor of Florida and the state of Florida was setting a great example of how things should be.
He was needed in Florida.
Possum wrote:
yeah. And I wonder if he’s just fucked it up.
I have a question for you. I don’t understand the grading system for university degrees.
I see someone has majored in art history, graduating with a grade of 2:1 what is that telling me?
What is on the left side of the colon, what on the right? What is being measured?
eaglesoars wrote:
clarification: uni degrees in the UK
@ eaglesoars:
I had to Google that as although I went to university, a medical school, one of the top ten in the world, we parted company after the first year.
From this link it looks like it is kind of the cuma sum laud and magna cum laude etc grading in the US.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/students/success-guide/ug/assessments-and-feedback/improving-through-feedback/understanding-grades/
@ Possum:
Let’s start over. In this grade of 2:1 what does the ‘2’ measure?
Answer at your leisure. I’m going to bed
As a side note, when I was at university in the late seventies we did not major in anything.
The course you took was the ONLY thing you studied. Non of this course hours requirement in unrelated shit.
You go to uni to do a degree in biochemistry and that is ALL you study.
A friend of mine got a degree in textiles. WTF is that you may ask?
It is fabrics, the composition of the different cloths both man made and synthetic , weaving, dyes, even flammability and treatments to reduce that.
Basically a three year degree in a specific subject. No bull shit add on courses.
@ eaglesoars:
The 2 means a second class honours degree. that is split into two categories. Hence the 1 or 2 after the colon.
This is the UK system of degree classification. This is not the same as a GPA or other international grading systems.
UK degrees are classified as follows.
Highest to Lowest degree classification (marks out of 100):
1st / Class I – 70 or above
2:1 / Class II Division I – 60 to 69
2:2 / Class II Division II – 50 to 59
3rd / Class III – 40 to 49.
Casual my life update.
Well it seems the apartment owners are obsessed with welding bars back onto the fence that have holes cut in them that stops us from taking a short cut to the convenience store. Short cut through the fence equals four hundred feet less to walk.
Eight hundred feet round trip excess in hundred degree weather is significant. Well it is for me.
Residents cut a hole, using sawsalls and angle grinders. A community service. Next day welders install new bars over the hole.
Meanwhile, eight days ago they painted the apartment block I live in. It now looks like a clown house. Blue yellow and white. They painted all the doors. Yes painted over the door numbers.
Now I am leaving this up to your imagination but how the fuck do you get ANYTHING delivered to an apartment complex when there are no numbers on the doors?
You don’t…..
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I really can’t understand what all of the ruckus is all about. If you can source incandescent lights easily and economically then knock yourself out. If someone wants to read by candlelight I can’t see why one would take that ability away from somebody who doesn’t care much for their visual acuity. Same with fluorescent lights, except when the trashing of such lights puts heavy metals into the immediate trash environment, when there are safer and less destructive options easily and cheaply available. If there are alternate illumination sources then folks should be able to choose whatever light source suits them. Frankly when there are a myriad of different types of various variable frequency types of LED lights that last 3-500% longer than incandescent bulbs, at a little or no cost escallation why would one bother with old technology?
If you enjoy physically using a mechanical watch then have one. If you want the latest Apple watch then save up for one and knock yourself out. Alternatives are where the spice of democracy springs from after all. The words BAN don’t chime with freedom.
@ Aussie Infidel:
fluorescent light bulbs should have been first on the banned list. Once blue LEDs were invented.
So who the fuck wants just blue lights? well, the modern white light LEDs are actually high power blue LEDs that shine on some magical coating that then emits white light.
Also any type of LED uses rare earth elements which are not recyclable and kind of rare.
Incandescent bulbs are not very efficient. Most of the energy they use is converted to heat, not light. I get that.
Now imagine a scenario where for most of the year it is cool at night and when it gets dark the heating is on.
You with me so far? Even though an incandescent bulb is providing more heat than light then that heat at night is not actually wasted.
when the light is on, at night…..
@ Possum:
Welcome to learning to live in a commune mate!
Welcome too to how our elite Eloi see the way clear of how to house and control the Morlocks of our immediate future. I just had to endure an hour long bitch session from a drinking mate yesterday moaning about living in a vertical community cheek and jowl with a bunch of anti-social buggers. Lying and beating up one another and then complaining and trying to set up each other by complaining to the cops. No wonder the cops absolutely hate ‘domestics’! People are not meant to live in vertical ‘hives’
That old shibboleth about good fences (AKA room to move) make for good neighbours.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I really did not get that. I was trying to say that they first banned incandescent bulbs and forced us to use compact fluorescent bulbs which are more energy efficient at producing light but an environmental disaster.
Now Leds are available then I am kind of OK with that as long as they last for many years and a recycling or disposal option is available.
I am someone who wants US mail trucks to be all electric and use lead acid batteries. The batteries are ninety nine percent recyclable. Fuck the lithium shit.
Possum wrote:
Ummmm Nah I’m not with you mate.
For a start if you are heating your space with incandescent lights you must be drunk. Now I’m guessing for this bit but if your heating is dependent on Incandescent light my wild arsed guess is that you probably don’t have much insulation in your walls and especially your ceiling. The floor probably only leaks 18% but your ceiling is where most of that ‘incandescent light heating’ is headed.
Been having problems sleeping after some strip lighting ‘blue light ‘ therapy? Fluorescent strip lighting is not only harsh and cold, it’s bad for your eyes and does nasty stuff to your brain’s ability to fall asleep. TV and monitor screens and even phone screens are massive blue spectrum light pumps. Really bad for the human brain mate!
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@ Aussie Infidel:
What I was saying is ALL the electricity that enters your home is converted to heat. Even your really loud music.
If you require heat in your home at night then incandescent bulbs are not wasting energy.
Possum wrote:
Not all that sure as to whether the Brits universities do it correctly. I guess if you have a brace of A Levels already under your belt, it’s marginally acceptable to go down that track. My daughter did Archaeology at Bristol and that’s all she did. Having all of the exams that count at the end of a 3 year degree is also not ideal in my opinion. Having a reading load and a tutor seems like a good idea however.
Doing Undergraduate Science is a bit fraught, doing it the Brit way. In Oz it’s a bit more of the US model of university, with a load of lectures. tutorials and hands on experiments initially in a wealth of science subject matter, maths of various flavours, becoming more specific as you move towards a speciality. Same with Engineering.
Arts tended to have a splash of everything because Arts students couldn’t really decide what they wanted to do. The undergraduate BA stands for ‘Bugger All’.
🙂
Possum wrote:
Ever feel the heat of a 7 watt LED giving out the same OPTICAL energy as a 60 watt incandescent bulb?
It all comes down to specific energy frequency EFFICIENCY. LED make optical energy very efficiently and little heat energy and you only have to pay for a SPECIFIC frequency of energy delivered at MINIMAL cost. As you observed your incandescent bulbs are crudely pumping out IR heat with a little bit of attendant optical frequency energy, and you’re paying $$$$ for heating way up above your head that escapes through your uninsulated ceiling and no where near your ears and feet. You could of course install a trapeze up by your ceiling I guess?
I am really only talking about my experience in the UK educational system from the mid seventies. At sixteen you were done and free to go. Many did.
Up to sixteen we studied English language, English literature, math, geography, chemistry, biology, physics, French and history. All pure subjects.
Age sixteen you go to high school if you so desire. There I studied chemistry, physics and biology. That is all.
In those days we gradually narrowed down our studies until at university level it was one subject.
No splashes of anything else.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
You are mistaking what I mean. I am all for energy efficient lights. What I am saying that the energy waisted by incandescent lights in some circumstances is not wasted energy.
That fact distorts the advantages.
Possum wrote:
With you there 100% . Just ask that Captain of the car carrier currently burning to the waterline off Holland! NOW the Eloi have admitted that there were not just a dozen electric (Lithium Ion powered batteries) cars aboard but about 500 mixed among the couple of thousand petrol and diesel power cars aboard. As always it’s the insurance actuaries who decide what technology gets adopted in the end because it’s actuaries who figure the risk and decide what gets shipped and what is least risky and therefore insurable.
Battery powered cars haven’t made the cut and are prone to burst into flames. Now too the folks are discovering that they were lied to when it came to range of electric cars and availability of electricity from ‘unreliable’ green power generators. We may see a flash of Green Hydrogen powered fuel cells … and I do mean a ‘FLASH’!
🙂
@ Possum:
Most incandescent lights reside up on the ceilings mate.
As Rumpbold of the Bailey was won’t to say…
“I rests me case M’Laud!”
When the daytime temp here is over one hundred F and the night is eighty plus F all my food is microwaved. Saves energy. Does not add to heat in apartment. Efficient.
In December when the heating is on then I get to cook my food in the oven. Not energy efficient, but that heat I waste using the oven supplements the energy used for my heater.
When the daytime temp here is over one hundred F and the night is eighty plus F all my food is microwaved. Saves energy. Does not add to heat in apartment. Efficient.
In December when the heating is on then I get to cook my food in the oven. Not energy efficient, but that heat I waste using the oven supplements the energy used for my heater.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Most British people go upstairs to bed and sleep in the warm and toasty air the downstairs light produce.
See, incandescent lights are awesome.
Possum wrote:
In Oz we were generalists until the end of high school. You did Primary Finals at 12 and then 5 years of High School. You could depart at 15 if you wished with an Intermediate or go on for your final 2 years partially streamed. Over the whole of High School we ALL did French, Latin, English, Modern History, Ancient History, Maths I (Calculus) and Maths II (Analytical Geometry and Algebra), Physics, Chemistry, Economics and Religious Studies. Ten of the eleven were tested through the State Exam Systems in public ( NOT Public as in the UK system) system. Three Terms a year and three sets of public exams a year. Of the 1,000 marks up for grabs our particular (aberrant class had the top 15 out of our class of 73) cohort would score above 985, including the first second and fifth in the State of 5 1/2 million people (NSW)I was crap at languages except English and we were subject to having languages beaten into our hides! It didn’t work!
🙂
Physics was my best subject and I often clawed my way up to seventh or eighth in that class of 73 souls on occasion. Latin I was lucky to score 46 on a good day with a strong following wind and sitting behind a Latin scholar! (nudge … nudge … wink, wink). At Intermediate we were streamed marginally. The Cerise class kept up the lot whilst the Blue Class did General Science and General Maths, and those struggling on the margins of Maths I & Maths II ended up doing Maths III as a way of still getting into university science or engineering.
Everyone still at school at 17 or 18 did Leaving Certificate which qualified you for university, anywhere in Oz.
We were STILL getting beaten regularly right up to the end. Average was about a dozen ‘cuts’ by cane a week. We swam and played cricket and took athletics, competitively in Houses in Summer. In winter everyone played Rugby and most also scouted weekends and trained in various military skills Wednesday afternoon on our sub-calibre rifle range weekly map read marched and did PT. I got my marksman badge in OMC (Owen Machine Carbine) 🙂 Yes they actually gave 14 year old kids actual sub-machines to fire in an urban school range in a concrete handball court. We did a summer annual camp in regional groups of 5,000 at Singleton Camp on the Western Plains where we travelled by troop trains and then marched the 5 miles to tented camp. In camp we participated in Brigade level exercises, fired Medium and light machine guns and Medium and light mortars on field firing ranges. Trained tactically , learned to map read and navigate and had a blast. There were 70,000 Army Cadets in NSW alone aged between 13 and 17 years of age.
Kind of a cooking post.
Got an eight pack of cheap hotdogs thingies and to heat them up I dropped a couple of them into boiling water and amazingly they doubled in size.
Now, tonight I have an internet Tinder date arranged at seven PM.
I am thinking that about ten pm would be a good time to stick my hot dog into boiling water.
Hope she brings buns.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Bunk may like this. One of the options at about age thirteen was technical drawing.
Annual Camp in Singleton was based on WWI type tented camps with tent lines, 4 duckboards per 6 boy 180 pounders tents in tows of 20 with straw palliates 5 wooden blankets 1 pillow and pillowslip One kerosine storm lantern per tent and one red bucket of water per tent to put out the fire if the tent burned everyone to death! It NEVER happened…. ever. There was an inch of ice on the surface of the water bucket so it probably would have not been usable anyway!
Possum wrote:
I like that.
Straw filled (large hessian bags) into which you dumped half a bale of straw to sleep on) The 5 blankets were NOT wooden… they were however Woolen!
Predictive was playing up again!
Breakfast was a huge plate of stodgy porridge and cold mink and loads of sugar. Bacon and eggs, chips, tea, and 2 pieces of fruit. Lunch was sandwiches in the field and water from your water bottle on your hip, and dinner was tea and stew, potatoes and veggies and a stodgy dessert and hot custard. Then a route march or a lantern stalk and an open air movie. Lights out 2200 and wake up at 0630, we were tired and slept well. Medical parade at 0630 and into the next day at Singleton.
Did that for 14 days, dropped the tents and packed away the camp then marched the 5 miles back to the railway siding with our rifles and kitbags over our shoulders.
We didn’t know any better!
🙂
HEH
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
In the seventies the UK educational system was all about finding the optimum fit of a student to a career.
They fucked up with me. Colour blind, electronics not a thing for me. Also pilot, astronaut, military, train driver.
Medicine a nice career path.
I hate touching other humans. I has this bubble thing. Doctor ain’t my thing.
P.S If I ever meet you, stay six feet away. Bubble.
Hmmm. 13 years old, 1970, seventh grade… That was the year my favorite uncle gave me a stereoscope viewer with 1950s nudie slides and my sister showed me where my dad hid his stash of Playboy magazines.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Alas nothing like that but we did do a load of physics and masses of Chemistry practicals in the labs. I really liked Tech Drawing at uni however doing a few years of engineering before I got into the Airforce at Point Cook #1 BFTS (#67 Course Basic Flying Training School).
Aussie Infidel wrote:
You are absolutely right. People I know were confused as to why I was opposed to the recycling plan my city put up. They said it was voluntary and wouldn’t be much different than what is going on now.
Now that the plan is about to be implemented it is no longer voluntary, if there is a single piece of cardboard in your regular trash it will not be picked up, oh and the dumpsters they just replaced last year (at a cost of millions to replace all the dumpsters and reconfigure the trucks), they’re doing it all over again because they want to reduce the dumpster size another 30 gallons.
No government at any level should be mandating stuff like this, trash pickup especially should be handled by private companies that have to answer to higher ups about their expenditures.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Yeah, but the “required courses” crap allows them to require a bunch of humanities courses here, which all comes down to leftist indoctrination courses that serve no practical purpose. I remember walking out of sociology when they started praising Margaret Sanger as the greatest mind of all time, and wouldn’t let anyone bring up what she really was.
On an unrelated note, has anyone heard about anything strange going on with the VA? I ran out of refills on several of my meds and put in to get them three weeks ago and nothing is happening. No shipment or anything, but they show as renewed, they just aren’t available for shipment yet.
Well, what busy little bees you all have been today.
FWIW UFOs over Nevada. Don’t ask me, I have no idea
https://anomalien.com/astonishing-sighting-three-ufos-with-unprecedented-speed-over-nevada/
I’ve read thru stuff about all the Trump indictments. Jack Smith is widely understood to be a total asshole (down to “We have the video” but “Oh wait we forgot to turn it over? Sorry/not sorry”)
IMO – This is going to go down in DC with a DC jury with a judge who thinks the J6 prisoners haven’t been punished enough.!
Trump will be convicted and perp walked.
Oh! It will go to SCOTUS! you say
John Roberts is the the Joe Theisman of justices. Theisman changed his name to rhyme with Heisman and used hair spray. He’s all about appearances. Oh, yeah, who leaked the Dobbs verdict? And that idiot KBJ woman keeps using flawed studies to back up her 8th grade opinions. Alito and Thomas must ready to open a vein.
If Trump DOES somehow get out of this legally – mark my words – they will kill him.
And if he does go to jail – Epstein didn’t kill himself
Buy more ammo
Here is my Trump ticket
Trump/RFK jr
fucking landslide
TL;DR but someone was asking about it
This is a summary of Devon Archer’s testimony with a link to the entire doc (141 pages, go for it!)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/biden-investigation-full-devon-archer-testimony-released
welp. Lady C is reporting that King Charles has consulted ‘parliamentarians’ about ‘child custody issues’
The take-away being that Harry & Meghan are splitting
Well, of COURSE she did.
The final straw was over the publication date of Harry’s book. It was released last January I think. Meghan want to hold it until 2 weeks before Charles’ coronation. To steal thunder/overshadow, blah blah. This is the way narcissists who have been thwarted behave.
Apparently, Harry started to come out of the coma she’d put him in and put his foot down.
@ eaglesoars:
Or someone got to him for a ‘come to jesus’ meeting.
coldwarrior wrote:
I suspect he had a ‘come to jesus’ meeting and its name was THE CORONATION. There was no escaping that he was totally shunned and he quite obviously was aware of it. I suspect he’ll go back to the UK for awhile but his heart – such as it is – is in Africa.
The breakup will be good for the royal family, Harry will be better off in some ways. And it will be VERY good for the U.S. I don’t have time to explain the political skilldudgery H&M are involved with, but she’s just a power hungry, ruthless, narcissistic bitch and Harry is a flat out totalitarian.
ok, off to the store! Yayy me!
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19858/prestige-biotech-china
On the Chinese bio-warfare preparation of the battle space in the USA.
I know Rick Fisher personally and stayed with he and his family in DC when he was working for the Heritage Foundation. I would vouch for him 100%. Rick knows China extremely well and is the US go to expert on the PLAAF both for aircraft and missile forces.
coldwarrior wrote:
@ eaglesoars:
Pardon the ‘french Cold but Harry was ‘cunt-struck’ and M saw him coming, set him up and cashed in after her -B- level acting career tanked. Alas for M she misread and totally misunderstood how the Brit system of executive governance works. Harry was the ‘thick’ one, as well which made M’s job all that much easier.
eaglesoars wrote:
That is as obvious as that ‘big shiny ball thingie’ appearing in the East every 24 hours!
M will now be a two time loser and watch her ‘friends’ peel away as she’s now spoiled material.
@ eaglesoars:
Knowing that you take an interest in the words of Vigano Eagles I thought you may want to keep up to date with his recent battles with the ‘wolves’ in the Vatican.
I’m sure you know the reference from John’s Apocalypse about not bringing ‘peace’ but the sword… refers to the Sword of Truth from the mouth of the Lord, and even the word itself ….Apocalypse …. referring to the Truth, rather that some solely physically destructive happening.
No doubt Pope Francis and his crew (of wolves) will be having yet another Connumption Fit over this latest Vigano text.
🙂
https://www.remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/6743-fighting-the-satanism-of-the-new-world-order-the-keys-to-victory
Just to give context to Matthew’s gospel on which Vigano’s current text is based….. and also referring to John’s Apocalypse
Roncalli = Pope John XXIII the instigator of Vatican II of the 1960s
Bergoglio= Pope Francis who is currently actioning the plans set out post-Vatican II
The Bride of Christ= the Church
Pontmain 1871= French BVM apparition just after the second round of the Franco-Prussian war
Fatima 1917= the final (photographed and filmed miracle of the sun) appearance of the BVM in Portugal in front of 70,000 witnesses, that told of the end of WWI and communist Russia , the outbreak of WWII , and finally the much leaked (denied exposure by multiple Popes of the exact instructions to make the third part of the prophesy public by 1960 at the latest, by the BVM in 1917 at Fatima) third article of Fatima about the corruption and apostasy within the Church post Vatican II.
Although NOT a Doctrine of the Church it’s not a bad idea not to take it with a grain of salt either. Especially the bit about the Consecration of Russia (specifically) to the Heart of the BVM. It’s never been completed as specified by ANY Pope from 1917 and now, and certainly NOT before 1960
Just a wee bit of context.
@ Aussie Infidel:
THAT is a damn scary scenario.
The question “What If?” has been replaced with “When?”
@ Aussie Infidel:
you’ve given me a lot to read, but I’ll have to save it for tomorrow or maybe the day after. Psycho Puppy had one hell of an ‘accident’ on my bedroom carpet (which is crap to begin with) and I have my work cut out for me tomorrow. I actually went to the store this evening so that my tomorrow won’t be interrupted.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I do not post much and can only read a few days/weeks later, but I wanted to tell you I appreciate your insights that you share. You have provided some background on events that I did not know and it gave me more clarity.
Congrats again to your son. No doubts he will make your proud.
@Cold— We need to talk some time. I tried ringing you on the holidays and we were both busy. Maybe we can try again this Christmas ;).
ok I’m tired. I tried to make a phone call with the TV remote
Here’s an interesting interview with David Garrow, who wrote the first accurate biography of the fictional character known as Barack Obama:
THIS is an amazing story of survival. On Christmas Eve 1971, a Lansa plane was struck by lightning, fuel tanks exploded, and the only survivor was 17 year-old Juliane Koepcke. She was ejected while still strapped in her seat, fell two miles and crashed through the canopy of the Peruvian jungle where she roamed for 10 days.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17476615
Pfizer malpractice & government corruption.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/bombshell-pfizer-spokesperson-admits-during-australian-senate-hearing/
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
i like it.
@ lobo91:
interesting
the pac-12 is falling apart….washington and oregon are going to the big 10.
but no one comes out and says why….it’s easy. the geniuses at pac12 hq basically gave the television contracts to apple…ummmm….
you just cut your potential audience in half, then ask how many apple peeps are going to pay extra to watch pac 12 sport?.
i know that i’m not going to go out and buy apple to just watch crappy football from the pac12. i think that this was done on purpose by the girly-men soccer fag metrosexual bois on purpose.
@ eaglesoars:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12374429/Royal-Family-fail-publicly-send-Meghan-Markle-happy-42nd-birthday-wishes-Aides-insist-mark-birthdays-working-royals-social-media-despite-sharing-messages-Duchess-online-previously.html
heh, rocket surgery
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230804-nasa-back-in-touch-with-voyager-2-after-interstellar-shout-1
coldwarrior wrote:
yep. And Travelyst, the eco-friendly travel agency that Harry started just booted him from the board.
Pierogi recipe!
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/109914/pierogi-polish-dumplings/
Talk about own goal. I thought DeSantis was smarter than this
Asked by a reporter during a campaign stop in Iowa whether the 2020 election was “stolen,” DeSantis said the fraud theories “did not prove to be true.” He did not, however, mention the name of his top rival for the GOP nomination, who was just indicted for allegedly working to overturn the last presidential election.
“I’ve said many times the election is what it is,” DeSantis said. “All those theories that were put out did not prove to be true. But what I’ve also said is the way you conduct a good election that people have confidence in, you don’t change the rules in the middle of the game.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/desantis-says-election-fraud-theories-promoted-trump-not-prove-true-rcna98221
I saw a headline from Conservative Treehouse saying a donor got to him
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh, I should also mention H&M were not invited to the commemoration of Queen Elizabeth’s passing
I haven’t tried it yet, but Elon tweeted a link to this earlier today
https://www.removepaywall.com/
Trump special counsel Jack Smith files protective order over ex-president’s threatening Truth Social post saying ‘If you go after me, I’m coming after you’, over fears of witness intimidation
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12375335/Trump-special-counsel-Jack-Smith-enters-ex-presidents-threatening-Truth-Social-post-saying-Im-coming-evidence-just-HOURS-published.html
Donald Trump on Thursday told the magistrate in Washington DC that he understood he could not make any threats to those involved in his case
On Friday, the 77-year-old wrote on his social media network: ‘IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!’ – an apparent threat to those who may cooperate
Hours later, Jack Smith, the special counsel overseeing the prosecution, sought a protective order, citing Trump’s post as evidence he may threaten witnesses
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They’ll try to put him in jail to prevent him from campaigning. He’ll be treated like the J6 prisoners
For Bunk
“Getting permits is more complicated than it was before.”
Developers in #California are navigating new regulations that require solar panels and energy storage on all new commercial construction, with some saying it is contributing to delays.
https://twitter.com/EpochTimes/status/1687672274130747392
eaglesoars wrote:
that was from my #123
now this
BREAKING: Top DeSantis donor says no more money until campaign makes changes
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-top-desantis-donor-says-no-more-money-until-campaign-makes-changes?utm_campaign=64483
Bigelow expressed reservations about DeSantis’ approach, emphasizing the need for the governor to attract new major donors and adopt a more moderate stance. “He does need to shift to get to moderates. He’ll lose if he doesn’t … Extremism isn’t going to get you elected,” said Bigelow, underscoring his belief that the current strategy may prove ineffective.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep. And EV chargers also.
@ eaglesoars:
The solar panel hustlers say that with the savings on the electrical service the system pays for itself in about 20 years.
The lifespan of a solar panel is about 20 years.
Rude awakening today. Suddenly I couldn’t access a lot on the internet, some sites opened, others (like YouTube & Twitter) froze up. Couldn’t log into my bank account either.
Somehow MS360 decided it wanted to be the boss, suddenly dropped icons on my toolbar and thought it was my default browser. I told it to fuck off, disabled it, but it had already damaged FireFox. Once I reinstalled FF, most everything returned to normal… except for my online banking. It won’t let me enter the temporary text security number.
Seeing a number of tweets with the 2-letter comment “GM” but not sure what it stands for other than General Motors.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Example. Must be some gamer group I stumbled into.
https://twitter.com/DaggerAndBullet/status/1687777328020021248
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
Glad to be a help!
🙂
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Odd. I tried to purchase something from New Zealand the other day and the msg said my bank had blocked it. hmmmmm….
@ eaglesoars:
They have a hiccup in their system. It recognizes me and my account, but won’t take the security number they email me. One more thing to do Monday.
Two USAF flyovers today. Someone’s in town.
USS Zumwalt’s homeport has been changed from San Diego to Pascagoula. She’s getting refitted for hypersonic thingies.
https://news.usni.org/2023/08/03/uss-zumwalt-back-underway-for-homeport-change-to-mississippi-after-repairs
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I don’t get it. Why?
I love Mississippi. We used to vacation in Biloxi when I was a little girl. Rented one floor of a house right across the street from the Gulf of Mexico. The woman who owned the house was a widow of a long time state senator. Her name was M.E. Thole (THO-lee). She gave me an ancient copy of Grimm’s Fairy Tales that I still have.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Oh, there’s a DBA somewhere who is about to open a vein. Updates are out of sync. Or a network problem.
umm….Elon, bad move. You’re about to be suckered
If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill.
No limit.
Please let us know.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1688022163574439937
eaglesoars wrote:
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
11PM – Another sortie.
eaglesoars wrote:
There is a MAJOR attack on the banking system here just now!
Loads of Fyshing going on everyday attempting to spoof PW etc out of the denizens of these islands
🙂
I don’t need no stinking SPRs
🙂
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/biden-energy-secretary-secretly-consulted-top-chinese-energy-official-spr-release-sales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN4o3lJR0yM
Just to keep abreast, with a Pfizer senior executive being ‘hauled over the coals in Australia’, for no other reason except the sheer joy of watching a senior Pfizer senior executives getting gelded with a rusty blunt spoon, by a particular adept Aussie Conservative Senator.
The Cheeky Bastards from Pfizer were jabbing each other with water just in case they were poisoning the general public with COVID 19 ‘serums’.
The rotten shits should be buried in Bullant hills with their heads covered in honey.
🙂
Pfizer Official Admits Company Employees Received Different Covid Jabs Than Rest Of Population
by Kelen McBreen
During a recent hearing in the Australian Senate, a Pfizer official revealed company employees received a special batch of the experimental mRNA Covid-19 jabs.
The fact was revealed after a politician asked the Big Pharma employee if it was true that Pfizer employees received a batch of Covid vaccines that was “specially imported” by the company and was never tested by the government.
The Pfizer official confirmed the rumour to be true, which lends more credibility to the theory that there were potential placebo batches of the Covid jabs to mitigate the damage caused by the real shots.
Elsewhere during the Australian Pfizer hearing, politicians got the employees to reveal the company doesn’t know why its shots are giving people myocarditis.
At one point, a Pfizer official was brazen enough to claim nobody in Australia was “forced to get the vaccine” during the Covid pandemic despite millions of people being threatened with job loss if they did not get the jab.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
For crying out aloud. Try telling that to doctors and nurses and hundreds of professional firefighters who are STILL ‘off work’ on no pay after COVID collusion between socialist Professional Firefighters’ Unions and Labour Federal and State administrations.
Bastards!
SPIT
From a former Permanent Director of Counter Intelligence……
Right P ; Typical official group non think . I discovered in Canberra that many of these “ reviews “ are slightly modified each year or on official demand – -to ensure the proto document is “evolving “. I was puzzled until the authors told me of their “little trick”.
Off the record -over dinner- many senior officials were privately scathing . In the morning they were back at their desks !
SECRETARY OF DEFENCE’S FOREWORD
To put not too a sharp edge on this response ….
9 DEFENCE AND NEW ZEALAND’S
PART 1
2.1 New Zealand’s world is subject to major 14 geostrategic risks <<<<
That many ? 14 you say? Given over a century plus of bad habits, I’d be more prone to believe that it comes down to a couple ….. (tops)
Maintain open trading routes across huge swathes of ocean.
Pick a mildly interested suitor and suck up to the max and play pretend defence
2.2 Strategic competition is at the centre of 14 international security challenges<<<<
“No shit Sherlock’? see (b) above
2.3 Climate change impacts will increase and 17 intensify security concerns<<<<<
Oh, dear oh dear oh dear! I was wondering when THAT particular political shoe was about to drop!
Terribly ‘concerning’, so much so that we seem to be having a conniption fit, as our security challenges have ballooned out to 17 security concerns now
Must be that nefarious security inflation we’ve all been ‘experiencing’ lately.
Dear oh dear this is so very ‘concerning’. We could always suggest one of these…
I’ll have to steal directly from those great writers of ‘Yes Minister’. You just can’t craft scenes like the following any more.
Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby……… : – "And to that end, I recommend that we set up an interdepartmental committee, with fairly broad terms of reference, so that at the end of the day and with due consideration of the facts, we'll be in the position to think through the various implications, and arrive at a decision, based on long-term considerations, rather than rush prematurely into precipitate and possibly ill-conceived action, which might well have unforeseen repercussions that can only be of serious concern."
Cabinet Minister James Hacker………. :- "You mean no."
2.4 COVID-19 presents an immediate 19 challenge, and is intensifying other
negative security trends<<<<<<
Ahhh and there is the second shoe dropping right on time. If one can’t befuddle ‘em with obfuscation, then baffle ‘em with Bulls**t. COVID19 dusted off yet again for another round of ‘fear-porn’. Just when I imagined that paper masks were passe, and stencilled foot prints 2 metres apart were relegated.
Shock horror more ‘fear inflation’. We are now up to 19 security trends. Well at least they are now only ‘intensifying’ trends rather than ‘nasty’ challenges, so let’s be grateful for small mercies.
I thought the Eloi had given up on Covid19 schtick, as it had seen better days. Apparently not so.
A few negative security concerns.. well 17 is not a few I suppose …. and the Morlocks will be gagging in fear and trepidation, to once more lock themselves inside their houses, in their 15 minute communities, eating their insect 'Hot Dogs', screaming ‘….. hit me harder Master. I am still not properly contrite ….”
<<<<<NATIONAL SECURITY
<<<>>>>
Ahhhh, The easy ones first ehhh? Sit at my feet ‘grasshopper’ and learn. Defence Assessments are purely to keep Civil Servants occupied and out of trouble. NOT plotting the demise of their Ministers.
<<<>>>>
Ohhh come on. Not even you can pretend that you believe that? The Ministry of Trade and Industry’s job is securing New Zealand’s National Security. THAT alone defines New Zealand’s security!
<<<<>>>
Now you’re just being silly. Other than maintaining the façade of serious defence interests …. the actual intent of New Zealand Defence interests involves the rather obscene rort of crawling up the slippery pole, of pretend Defence Policy Formation, and gathering Knighthoods, and Gongs along the way. Ohhh yes I almost forgot … the Directorships ….. once the Gongs and aiguilettes are passe, and making a serious ‘buck’ kicks in, and General Blimp cashes in.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
got a link?
Looks like Niger is blowing up. I think I posted last week that we had sent troops over and wondered why
eaglesoars wrote:
Sure
There you go
https://www.infowars.com/posts/pfizer-official-admits-company-employees-received-different-covid-jabs-than-rest-of-population/
🙂
South African EFF leader Julius Malema calls for his supporters to go out and kill white farmers.
“You must never be scared to kill. A revolution demands that at some point there must be killing because the killing is part of a revolutionary act.”
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1688202450262790144
video at link
eaglesoars wrote:
BREAKING: Following confirmation from officials in Niger Republic of the presence of Wagner PMC in that country, Wagner itself has just issued a press release confirming that its armed/combat division is present in the country to protect the new military administration against any attack from a foreign army, with a special concentration in the capital, Niamey. ECOWAS had given the military administration in Niger till today, Sunday, August 6, 2023 to cede power to the ousted, pro-France president of Niger Republic, Bezoum.
https://twitter.com/jcokechukwu/status/1688208134781743104
@ Aussie Infidel:
Thank you!
eaglesoars wrote:
This is a little more user friendly by an Aussie newshound where Senator Caravan gets his teeth into the Pfizer individual.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN4o3lJR0yM
Rich Barris is one of the few pollsters I respect. (don’t ask me who the others are, I can’t recall)
There’s no way you can be a pollster, listen to the fools pretending to be experts, and not honestly say the most likely outcome is Biden victory.
Republicans are just too stupid and selfish to do what Democrats are willing to do.
All the ingredients for a GOP win are present. They aren’t smart enough to mix them.
https://twitter.com/Peoples_Pundit/status/1688374044712689664
Why are there so heat-related deaths in Phoenix? It’s hot.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/6fR7UTWZMzvE/
@ eaglesoars:
It’s Angola all over again
@ eaglesoars:
Iron Fist corollary.
Rip
@ Aussie Infidel:
I just watched the dreadful underarm bowl incident.
Cowardice.
coldwarrior wrote:
Which will live in infamy forever!
🙂
Less than a month before the Great Cycle Challenge!
https://greatcyclechallenge.com/Riders/BruceRoepke
Wish me luck!
They’ve added some extra bike lanes and sidewalks, so things will be a bit safer this year. More main streets will be getting upgrades over the next few years, and there’s a chance we’ll get a big chip manufacturing facility, which will mean even more upgrades. Im hoping by the end of the decade, I’ll be able to ride most of the main roads without having to deal with traffic.
coldwarrior wrote:
wait what?! What’s the Iron Fist corollary?
@ right_wing2:
I wish I could still ride a bike but my knees are shot from running.
This was emailed to me by a friend. It’s an instagram link. There is a ‘camera’ out that uses AI to generate an image. There is no lens. It uses location data. If you look at the actual scene and compare it to the ‘picture’ – this is ‘deep fake’ stuff.
National Geographic would like a word
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvlmwWvMWcP/
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh, look who just showed up!
NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT MONDAY 8/7/2023 UKRAINE COUP-LINKED VICTORIA NULAND VISITS NIGER
US OFFICIAL LINKED TO 2014 UKRAINE COUP VISITS NIGER WITH ‘ EXTREMELY FRANK’ AND ‘QUITE DIFFICULT’ TALKS
(NEWS, COMMENT, ANALYSIS)
The situation in Niger US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland visiting Niger.
Nuland was active as a US State Department official during the 2014 coup in Ukraine that removed an elected pro-Russian government from power.
That led to Russian annexation of Crimea and the fighting in eastern Ukraine that ended with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
“extremely frank and at times quite difficult”
That is how Nuland characterized her talks with Niger’s new leaders.
A talking point in Mainstream Media tonight is that Nuland was not allowed to see Niger’s ousted President Mohamed Bazoum.
Nuland pushing for a transfer of power back to Mr. Bazoum but she was rebuffed.
The Economic Organization of West African States meeting again Thursday regarding the situation in Niger…
https://nextrushfree.blogspot.com/2023/08/news-summary-intelligence-report-monday.html
Every time I see this vampire show up, I think ‘color revolution’. Whatever side she’s on, I’m on the other one.
@ eaglesoars:
That sucks.
I know there’s less stress in biking, but if they’re bad enough, anything would be tough to do.
Thanks bunk!!!!
This is a VERY good read. Not long………..
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/normies-awake/
Passing through and a product review.
Several months ago I got a cheap headphone thingy. A wireless one as I was fucking sick of the fucking cats chewing the wires to my cheap wired ones.
Cost me about fourteen dollars then.
It is great. Sound is good and it can remember it is paired to two devices. Switching from PC to phone is easy.
I would give it a five stare rating except for one annoying feature.
It says in my right ear what it is doing when I press the power button. Only says four things. In a female voice, back in the eighties we only used male voices as the frequency needed is generally lower so less storage required but I digress…
It only says
“Power on”
“power off”
“pairing”
“connected”
LOL so what is pissing me off you may ask? Well when the headphones say “pairing” it is a different voice.
WHY. Anyway highly recommended cheap over the ear headphones that last days on one charge and recharge in an hour or so.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NNBBY8F?th=1
coldwarrior wrote:
NOW what did I do?
Went to Chase Bank this morning to get online access to my checking account.
I was able to make a deposit, so the account is still there and active, then Eduardo confirmed the same and we changed my password.
Got home, tried it, and the bank system acknowleged the account and my password, then emailed me a confirmation code that it wouldn’t accept. Called the bank but the branch wasn’t taking any calls.
Went back to Chase and waited, Eduardo confirmed that the password I had was correct and we could access the account – from his desktop – but he didn’t have to retrieve a confirmation code via email, said I need to clear my cookies cache and history on my PC and try again in a few hours.
Still no access. I’m giving Chase one more chance to fix THEIR problem.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Meanwhile Pump No. 84 is busy fucking up my attitude.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
On top of all that, Ko wants to be with me tonight, but the missus squelched the idea.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I just got an email from Morgan Stanley. I hold some stock or something from them from an old job. It said all prospectus were online now or something, click the link. The sending email looked fine so I clicked.
It’s for employees.
People aren’t testing this crap
Oh ffs. He’s toast
WATCH – Mike Pence released a campaign ad filling up his truck at the gas station, but forgets to push the button.
https://twitter.com/TheFirstonTV/status/1689056546695606273
Roseanne Barr is a national treasure. Right up there with Joan Rivers, who I sorely miss
The propaganda here from the other side is sad. It’s just a collection of unhinged emotional outbursts from Trump Derangement Syndrome psychopaths who only hate him because the war party pedos told them to. I’ve been mentally ill my whole life and these people are batshit crazy in comparison.
https://twitter.com/therealroseanne/status/1689081289670844416
Yep, his last term
McConnell warns House GOP on Biden impeachment: ‘Not good for the country’
https://nypost.com/2023/08/08/mcconnell-cautions-gop-on-impeaching-biden-not-good-for-the-country/
This is not good. This is REALLY not good.
BREAKING: Portland jury finds Antifa militants not liable in Andy Ngo attack, defense attorney declares ‘I AM ANTIFA’
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-jury-finds-all-antifa-defendants-not-liable-in-andy-ngo-attack-defense-attorney-declares-i-am-antifa?utm_campaign=64483
Andy is now a dead man walking. And ANTIFA is emboldened beyond belief.
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s where most of my eggs are. There were a couple of brothers who started an investment firm decades ago, joined up with Solomon Smith Barney. SSB was absorbed by Morgan Stanley, but the core group I deal with hasn’t changed much. My dad trusted them, and so do I, but some recent changes are a bit disturbing.
Earlier today: NE Ohio
“BREAKING REPORT: Every ballot scanner now is down and not working at Cuyahoga Falls SPECIAL ELECTION polling location.”
https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1688964586135797760
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
U sent me a cigar. Very nice!
@ eaglesoars:
Leftists can now assault people without fear of penalty.
But if someone misgenders an individual, they will be jailed and fined for causing emotional distress.
@ right_wing2:
And in South Africa, thousands of blacks can chant about killing white people, and the NY Times insists that they don’t mean it:
@ lobo91:
WAKANDA!!!!
Or whatever that fantasy show is
coldwarrior wrote:
Lol. I wondered where that went. Completely forgot.
I thought it might be classified as a controlled substance or contraband and confiscated.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
It’ll rest in the humidor for a few weeks to recover from its arduous journey
Welp. Just brought Hubby home. He’s fine but his car is totaled. Gorgeous car too
eaglesoars wrote:
What????
What happened?
My electric usage is down 20% from 2 years ago. Same AC, same appliances…
Global warming my ass.
coldwarrior wrote:
Kingston Pike, one of the two main drags here in Farragut, is 5 lanes. 2 in each direction, a center lane for turning. Guy in the center lane pulled right in front of him. Hubby never had a chance to hit the brakes. There were no skid marks, no nothing. KABOOMSKI!!
Nobody hurt. BUT at the speed he was traveling (40-45 mph) the airbag should have deployed. It didn’t. Fucking lucky.
Robbie Robertson of The Band passed away at 80:
@ lobo91:
I’m still trying to process Tina Turner.
When Kief goes I’m done.
@ lobo91:
Take a load for free.
Scary situation in Maui.
https://twitter.com/TexanLady40/status/1689287342987657216
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Our dogs’ health insurance company had a poll today I got an email about. They have a $10k grant to give to shelters and there were 4 shelters people got to vote for. One was in Maui and it was in the lead last time I checked.
@ eaglesoars:
IIRC there are a lot of wild dogs on the islands.
Proton pump inhibitors. I’ve been on omeprazole for several years, have a family history of dementia. This is disturbing.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/08/09/heartburn-medicine-increases-dementia-risk/70549091007/
A cooking post.
Chicken curry is awesome.
Shrimp curry is awesome.
Goat curry is awesome.
Lamb curry is awesome.
Beef curry is awesome, although it is not on the menu in Hindu Indian places. It is “meat” curry. The religious we don’t eat cow thing.
Tonight I had a yearning for a curry, no beef, chicken, shrimp, goat or lamb in the freezer but I did have some roast pork
So, I cooked myself a very nice pork curry.
Nope, nope NOPE. Most nasty vomit inducing thing I ever made.
I am glad I did not invite a really hot chick to come to my place for a romantic meal, a couple of bottles of cheap wine and then intense bed jogging.
There would have been twice the amount of vomit to clean up.
@ Possum:
Pork curry….yeah…no.
ok, two sick dogs, a husband with a totaled car, and a tree that fell over into my neighbor’s yard.
I think I’ve made the ‘things happen in threes’ quota
Back to bed.
Noisy day today. The Blue Angels keep buzzing my house.
My big dogs nerves are a wreck though, lol. He can’t figure out the noise and it’s driving him nuts.
3 night shifts coming up tomorrow. But tonight…some unexpectedly great food and beer in Williamsport.
Daddy/daughter date nite out to the Olive Garden with his 8 yr old daughter. The wait person scared the crap out of said daughter because it looked female but sounded male. Daddy asked for another wait staff.
Mgmt booted them. Daddy is PISSED.
Wrote a letter
https://twitter.com/ladykennington/status/1689440266069868544
Not sure if anyone knew him from LGF or FB, but Danny Duke died suddenly on 1 August at the age of 59. No details yet.
https://www.southreporter.com/obituaries/danny-duke
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
the name isn’t familiar
A technical computery post.
If you are running windows 10 and it suggests you do an update then find a good book to read.
My PC is not exactly state of the art but it ain’t no slug.
Last update took seven hours.
Yikes! Seems as dead here today as it does downstairs!
California is considering MANDATING “bi-directional charging’ in all electric vehicles, so they can steal the power from your car to need demand.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/08/11/californias-new-plan-to-stabilize-its-energy-grid-is-so-insane-youll-mistake-it-for-parody-n791082
@ right_wing2:
That’s small beans. They just passed a law that if your child wants to change genders and you won’t ‘affirm’ it, the state takes the kid.
You have to be insane to live there
eaglesoars wrote:
His nic was AmeriDan. Good guy, liked to post long-winded diatribes on FB.
rightymouse wrote:
Everyone’s stunned by the news that there’s going to be a Bucc-ees built off of I-70 in Huber Heights, Ohio.
eaglesoars wrote:
Or stuck. For now, anyway.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
That does ring a bell but not from FB, had to be LGF
As for Buccees, we’re getting one here. I’m making aa special trip
Matt Gaetz should be Speaker. He as great ideas. Like calling Trump to testify before Congress about all the things he’s being prosecuted for AND GIVING HIM IMMUNITY TO DO IT.
Fuck you Jack Smith.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/rep_matt_gaetz_has_a_clever_idea_to_derail_jack_smiths_election_interference.html
Whatever happened to Dana Perino? She just evaporated into thin air.
My sister just texted me a copy of a reddit post. Somebody just got out of a mtg in which someone from the Mayor’s office said the fatalities from the Maui fire are expected to be more than 500 but less than 1000.
And many/most children.
They had closed the schools but the parents went to work, leaving the kids at home. They didn’t know that/how they had to evacuate and the parents couldn’t get to them.
My sister forwarded a letter she got from someone in Maui
“We are within 72 hours of the first fire event here on Maui. Winds from Hurricane Dora, partnered with high heat and drought ignited the unprecedented scene we are seeing in Hawaii.
There was a spot fire that the public was notified about the morning of Tuesday August 8th. By 10:00 AM the local fire response had contained the burn 100%. This information was widely spread as a public announcement, so everyone let their guard down and resumed normal activities.
The winds picked up in such a way the fire became uncontrollable. Local fisherman here told us their boat instruments clocked the highest wind gusts at 112 mph. And then the unimaginable happened.
All communication went down first. No one in the threatened area had the ability to send or receive calls, look up information on the internet, or even receive public announcements, alarms, or warnings.”
The one thing everyone has been talking about is how fast the fire was moving. Everyone said it happened in the blink of an eye. It all appeared normal. One man told us that his house lit on fire while he was still in it.
“Those outside had a few more seconds to respond, but not much. One witness described the previously nearby white smoke shifting instantly to a dark black.
There was no warning. No alarms, no responders knocking on doors telling people to evacuate. People began to run. The line of cars was immediate. But even some people in their vehicles didn’t make it out. The fire consumed one car after another, with drivers still inside as they were waiting in line to flee. Some people walked or ran 6 to 10 miles to escape with only the clothes on their back. Others, with nowhere to turn, ran into the sea; some ran from fire only to be lost to the sea.
This specific wildfire event didn’t just occur in a remote field or forest, this destruction pierced the heart of Maui. The scenes I’ve just described to you happened in Lahaina, the reigning city of the old Hawaii kingdom.”
“People lost absolutely everything they owned in an instant. One of the largest Banyan trees in the world reflects the condition of these people, hurt by the fire but still standing. The shock is still upon the people here, some still searching for loved ones. Others, uncertain if their house is gone, not knowing whether they will have a home to return to. Many are attempting to swallow the hard reality that they’ve lost a loved one, their home, their business, or all three.The roads to get to the west side of the island are closed at this time. The word here is that those who perished are still being recovered and they have run out of body bags here. The coast guard and firefighters have both had their hand in recovering bodies from the water. Sadly, this includes children and the elderly.
Yet, as I spend time here on the ground, I realize I am surrounded by survivors. Those who need to navigate taking care of their family today, and attempt to secure a place to sleep for the night, and a warm meal. People are sheltering at large gathering sites, in smaller buildings, and churches. The strength and love of the culture is in full display, with many opening their homes to be shared with four or five families.
The typical lines for resources continue to be uncertain, things like vehicle fuel, phone service, or access to/through the evacuation zones. Responders diligently press through processing their own loss while continuing to help others as fast, and as efficiently as possible. And while all of this is going and the residual smoke still smolders in the background. Everyone is looking for food to eat.”
@ eaglesoars:
No words…
Yeah, this is bullshit……..
———–
But Lt. Gen. Richard G. Moore Jr., deputy chief of staff for plans and programs in the US Air Force, says that these US systems will “likely be programmed with a ‘Judeo-Christian’ value system.” He states,
What will the adversary do? It depends [on] who plays by the rules of warfare and who doesn’t. . . . There are societies that have a very different foundation [than] ours. . . . Our society is a Judeo-Christian society, and we have a moral compass. Not everybody does. And there are those that are willing to go for the ends, regardless of what means have to be employed. And we’ll have to be ready for that. (emphasis added)
https://harbingersdaily.com/air-force-deputy-chief-of-staff-claims-ai-weapon-systems-be-programmed-with-judeo-christian-morality/
what the………..
In the last five years, the Hawaiian emergency alarm system mistakenly went off two different times, causing panic among residents. This week, the system fell short yet again but in a profound way — there was never a warning to the community about the latest wildfires set ablaze on the island of Maui.
Most survivors had little warning of the gaining fire until they smelled smoke or saw flames, reported The Associated Press. Dustin Kaleiopu, a resident of the city of Lahaina that’s in ruins, left his home with his grandfather when smoke started coming through the window, reported CBS News.
https://news.yahoo.com/hawaii-alarm-system-didn-t-210856727.html
Coming from Ron Johnson, this is a jaw dropper.
Sen. Ron Johnson: Covid-19 Was “Preplanned By An Elite Group Of People,” “Planned For Our Loss Of Freedom”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/08/11/sen_ron_johnson_covid_was_preplanned_by_an_elite_group_of_people_planned_for_our_loss_of_freedom.html
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/08/11/how-did-we-get-here/
eaglesoars wrote:
Stay 6-feet apart, wear masks, do not congregate in groups. We will suppress false and misleading information and conspiracy theories so you know what is going on.
None of that had to do with a virus.
@ coldwarrior:
Heavy duty stuff. The genii is out of the bottle, and he has no conscious.
Finally got online access to my checking account on my PC.
Installed Google effin Chrome. Something in FireFox was incompatible, and I don’t know why; according to the bank guy, mine was an isolated incident. Bizarre.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Some people are still buying into it all:
Meanwhile in Iowa…
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sbvUrwbKPmk
Youtuber Brandon Herrera just announced that he’s running against Tony Gonzales in TX 23:
lobo91 wrote:
Three things come to mind.
1. She can rent a theater, pay whatever they charge and invite whomever she wants. Who cares?
2. I don’t blame the people who bought into the hype that was force-fed non-stop beginning in January 2020. For some, in order to deal with what appeared to be an out-of-control situation, the solution is to do something, regardless of logic or its lack of efficacy, because it gives them a sense of control and self-righteousness. For some it verges on mania.
3. She’s a fucking moron.
Actually I was wondering just that … thingie … myself!
🙂
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/08/11/how-did-we-get-here/
@ eaglesoars: Note that there is no discussion of Azimov’s Rules of Robotics. Not even any “modified” rules, either. If Macker were still around, I’d be asking that if we wanted Cylons á la “Battlestar Galactica,” this is one way to get Cylons.
@ Canoe Convoy:
Macker! I hadn’t thought of him in years. I never quite figured him out, but he was entertaining.
https://twitter.com/mackers_world
@ Canoe Convoy:
I’m sorry I haven’t slept. You are referring to the ChatGPT thing?
I just got back from the Emergency Animal Hospital. Mia aka Psycho Puppy. Incredible nausea, vomiting, after the bloody poop events a few days ago. Looking at a blockage, pancreatitis or inflammatory bowel disease(which her Aunt Bonnie had, along with the epilepsy that killed her). Radiologist report should be in by 5:30 am so I ain’t getting no sleep, that’s for sure. I was hoping to get a glimpse of the Perseid meteor shower but too much cloud cover.
Was up at 7:00 am EST this morning. Maybe I should post stuff here too! 🙂
rightymouse wrote:
I woke up at 6am PST, but that was just a practice run.
I’ve got a line on someone who wants to unload 20 issues of the National Lampoon if anybody’s interested. No idea what condition or asking price.
@ rightymouse:
They all ded here. All posts are things from the afterlife.
The iPad equivalent of a weegy board
@ Possum:
Not yet.
I think I quit my consulting job again, or else I got dismissed. They went dark on me, and I’m not about to ask for project status. I’m two weeks out of the communications loop and I’ve have to get my smog certificate.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Do not retire. It is unpleasant.
Every day is the same.
Possum wrote:
I like the same. If I get tired of it I know what to do. More of the same.
Possum wrote:
sez WHO??
One week to go until my carpal tunnel surgery. Not going to lie. Nervous as hell.
The only airworthy privately-owned MiG-23 in the US crashed at an airshow in Michigan. No fatalities, fortunately.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Don’t let apprehension eat you up.
lobo91 wrote:
‘Martin-Bakerinmski’ seat with a BANG worked I assume?
🙂
Canoe Convoy wrote:
Agreed!
That Azimov guy sure knew how to handle those pesky robots!
Actually the Battlestar Galactica crew lost the plot once the shiny stupid Cylons got into the smarter type #2 skin-sack robot dolls and fell in love!
It got all down hill from there. We are all taking the wrong route as well, what with skin-sack robot ‘friends’ who are much too smart by half in a robot sort of way.
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Apparently so
how many people did these fuckers kill?
FDA Forced to Walk Back Smug Anti-Ivermectin Post, Makes Huge Admission About the Drug
https://www.westernjournal.com/fda-forced-walk-back-smug-anti-ivermectin-post-makes-huge-admission-drug/
lobo91 wrote:
Just saw this.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1690847648821948416
eaglesoars wrote:
Outright over the past 3 years, or including future fatalities due to to the vax?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
It didn’t hit a building. It crashed into a golf course near an apartment complex
@ Aussie Infidel: It made the plot more enthralling, fascinating. If it was just robots, the TV show would be easier to dismiss. Still, Azimov’s Laws Of Robotics should become more and more applicable. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Three-Laws-of-Robotics https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asimovs-laws-wont-stop-robots-from-harming-humans-so-weve-developed-a-better-solution/
@ Aussie Infidel: Plus, it’s more engaging, looking at robots that have the appearance of Tricia Helfer, than robots that look like tin heads.
@ Canoe Convoy:
Alas there will never be an ETHICAL chip to enable robots to act like a human.
Take the case where the Robot adopts all three ‘Asimov Laws Governing Robot’ behaviours.
iRobot driving your car is faced with impossible decisions, when the choice is saving a pedestrian youngster by rolling the car, thereby killing both the granny sitting beside the iRobot and destroying the iRobot, and but unbeknown to the iRobot the kid has just 4 weeks to live because she has a genetic anomaly .
OR
The iRobot gets it’s innards in a fix and freezes (say because it can’t get out of the Law #3 and Law #2) because it has to decide whether to sacrifice itself to resolve the fix its logic is in, due to some private agreement with a higher authority, about a possible important ETHICAL decision, unknown to the human sitting next to the iRobot. That puts a gun at the head of ANY human having anything to do with iRobot tech…. are you listening HAL 9000??
🙂
Canoe Convoy wrote:
The potential trouble that the human race would get itself into is the most likely on that will happen first!
Some soon to be the FIRST Trillion-aire will create a Robot that looks like Tricia Helfer, with a massive crush with its owner, and the poor male schmucks and lesbian women fall madly in luv … er lust ….. and refuse any and all real women. Humanity dies out!
🙂
NOW THAT is the most likely scenario that we will see first, in the Robot Apocalypse. Not killer iRobots. Just…. L Robots (lust Robots) destroying humanity with luvvvvvvv … errr… lustttttt !
🙂
These are the only Robots I could trust!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qbf6KX8O98
see 11:55 into this famous series to get your first sighting of a dependable robot! …. cheap too ! For just the cost of a couple of cardboard boxes and a spray can of silver paint!
HEH
🙂
I grew up watching Saturday afternoon movies for 11 pence including 3 different ‘cliff hanger serials a couple of cartoons and a 60 minute movie or two. Cheap at half the price. Even if the serials were already 30oyears old!
HEH
🙂
30 years old not 30o years!
I’m not that old!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Japan is already seriously discussing that issue. They are already dealing with a massively declining birthrate and now they already have young men choosing to live and “marry” their sex bots.
/——— new thread ——-/
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2023/08/14/competitive-golf-open-1/